Women behind the wheel : review of literature relating to male and female drivers.

This report forms part of a series published by the Federal Office of Road Safety (FORS) on women and road safety. It reviews the existing literature on male and female drivers and the conceptual and methodological issues relevant to such analyses. There are two other reports in this series: a statistical overview of female driver crash involvement and an analysis of attitudes and driving behaviours of young and middle-aged women obtained through a recent survey of women from across Australia. (A)